Ed Kohler just broke the low security around my all-but-secret project: cullect.com. “To me, this looks like a community based RSS reader where you’ll be able to read RSS feeds that are recommended to you by your friends.” – Ed Kohler Ed, you’re close. More background on the project here. New screencasts forthcoming.
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Tail-ing Remote Rails Production.log Locally
If you’re a Ruby on Rails developer wanting to keep an eye on what’s happening with your production apps, you already know Capistrano will do it for you: cap shell tail -f web/shared/log/production.log1 Thanks to John Nunemaker‘s comment at anodyne.ca 1. Your path may vary.
Leopard Installs Not Always Problem Free
After the customary until-you-cant-take-it-anymore 30-minute waiting period, I installed 10.5 Leopard on the Mac mini that serves my local network. The mini isn’t my primary work machine, and it’s regular duties are fairly straight forward: transport backups, be invisible. As such, the upgrade was quick and straight-forward (but I wasn’t really paying attention, I was …
The Performance Power of MySQL Index
I’m at the point in the development cycle where performance is the worth working on, for two reasons; everything else that’s going in is in, it’s too slow. After one too many out-of-memory errors and far too many times wondering if I should have purchased a larger server to begin with, I sent an SOS …
Local-Ownership Arguments Loco
“If the small operations want to stay in business… they have to innovate.” – Wolfgang Puck I’m with Puck, I don’t buy the argument that big national operations take money from smaller locally-owned operations. If anything, big name presence is proof a viable, stable market exists. Would it be better if Puck didn’t have a …
Project Launch: Sun Developer – Participate Masthead Menu
I just got word that another of the Sun Developer projects I’ve been working on lauched today: Now in addition to masthead-level access to Java APIs (you’re welcome), there’s a prominent menu item for all the community venues within the Sun.com domain (blogs, wikis, forums, SDN Share, etc). This change lets the ‘Communities’ menu (at …
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When Do We Throw It All Away?
First off, I’m all for minimizing landfills and maximixing the use of our resources. But, I’ve been thinking more and more about the economics of ‘recycling’ since listening to Mike Munger on EconTalk in July. Right at the start of the podcast, Munger asks, “I have something in my hand, I want you to guess, …